Weird Dime I found in my change.. Copper Color?

Does anyone know what this could be from? It looks like the nickel content somehow was removed.

 

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Hmmmm...looks like post mint damage (meaning not released from the mint in that condition) most likely some acidic solution because the surface appears to be pitted.

One would think if you dipped this coin into a copper sulfate solution, the surfaces would bond with the copper in the solution and impart a very thin plating. The lettering and devices seem to be too well defined for the outer layer of cupro-nickel to be dissolved, but it's possible. Remember, as long as the metal remains the same, the acidity of the solution is constant through out, the high and low spots on the coin will be removed at the same consistency and will maintain the same thickness.

Someone was experimenting here, hope you get a better answer.

Happy collecting

 

possibly never was nickel plated but id guess its post mint too,,,,,,,,,that thing would have been snatched up a while ago if it was a error?????????

good luck figuring it out

 

The surfaces don't look right to me, they don't look smooth.

They also don't look like copper should.

I think it was in a fire, but probably in a protected place or the fire was put out fairly quickly, meaning, instantly.

 

True, its got a lot of pitting on both sides. Who knows what happened to it but it is most likely post mint damage.

 

You have a coin that has been in the ground and found by a person with a metal detector or a person who found it in the ground other wise. I MD and find them like that all the time. Sorry. -O)

 

yeah, I've seen PMD like that before, looks like it was in the ground.

 

Looks a little crusty to me!

 

sometimes if a dime was buried in dirt it will turn a color like that.

 

This sounds like the most likely case. Whatever it is for sure, it definately happened post-mint.

 

metal detector coin, I find a lot like that.

 

*edit* I'm retarded

 

me too sometimes

 

metal detecting coin

 

Looks like it spent some time in the sand, likely a coin found metal detecting on a beach at one point.

 

i find them that way in the ground, when I metal detect here in Georgia.

 

I found a 1973 D Copper dime yesterday in my change.

 

No you didn't

 

Fake gnus

 

You rang?